Did they have Moon Patrol? I love pinball machines. Moreso 1990's era Williams machines.

Did they have Moon Patrol? I love pinball machines. Moreso 1990's era Williams machines.

Moon Patrol, I remember that. Then I wrote my own version on my Sinclair ZX81 in chunky graphics

Off topic I know,but I have a disc here that has all the old arcade games that I play all the time has like 1700+ games from space invades right up past the simpsons and the likes.brings back so much when I get to play it.

Yeah, ive seen a compliation like that for sale at the post office.

I think Rod may have been referring to MAME, which is a brilliant arcade emulator for the PC.

peppermint park brings back memories.....the cool putt putt gold course... the missile command arcade machine...and the kids waterslide was a nice touch. CANT BELEIVE ITS GONE

I'm glad I found this site. My aunty and uncle used to manage a motel up in Port Macquarie. I used to go up there often in the holidays and one of the main highlights was visiting peppermint park and fantasy glades. They stopped managing the motel when I was 18 in 2004 and just today I tried to do a google search and came across some of the posts on this site which said peppermint park had closed and was replaced with apartments. What a shame I distinctly remember the slides, the kids slide, putt putt golf course and the pedal carts. I also remember they used to have two sets of carts (smaller ones for kids and bigger ones for teens/adults). There were 2 tracks, one for the small carts and another track which branched off the small track for the bigger kids. The small carts were not allowed on the other track, one time I remember going on the wrong track in the small cart, and a boy told me off.. Haha. I still have a brochure of peppermint park (which would be around 13 years old) which I took from the motel room. I also have a fair few photos of the park and also fantasy glades when I was there last in 1994. I will scan them all for everyone. I have such fond memories of these places, I wish my future children could have experienced the joy and excitement that we all felt.

hi all. my uncle used to own a mitsubishi dealership in pm in early 80's. we had family holidays to his place twice a year. i loved pp an fg. i have some photos on photo bucket if any one is interested. http://s241.photobucket.com/albums/ff188/sarahjau/

It's been a while since I was here last but I managed to dig up a few photos of Peppermint Park, found some of fantasy glades too. Peppermint Park, 1993 It's such a shame our kids can't experience this too

It's such a shame our kids can't experience this too

From your pictures it looks like the park featured pedal bikes (A massive health and safety risk) and a swimming pool... I know most kids would prefer a much more hands on park experience perhaps with roller coasters and a water slide capable of launching uphill

From your pictures it looks like the park featured pedal bikes (A massive health and safety risk)

Huh?

Is Peppermint Park the place that had a ride that twisted through some bushland? I'm not quite sure how to describe it. The best description that I can give is that it was somewhat like a monorail, though with smaller cars that were open.

Swanny, that was Fantasy Glades.

They use to hae the ppp pepermint park song on tv in port i remember  all the kids made there own song and it went like this. P p p pepermint park is the place we hate the ducks are all dead and kolalas are fake p p p pepermint  park us so full off crap . I cant remember the rest but im from syd my dad was from port i remember my cousins sing this when the ad came on.

Well that was worth the 8 year bump..

welcome,  I guess...

Hello, I realise its a few years since this post was originally posted, but thought you'd be interested to know it was my Grandparents Roy & Dorothy, in partnership with friends of theirs, who originally built, managed & ran Peppermint Park. The owners of Fantasy Glades were not at all involved with Peppermint Park. I worked there on weekends & in the school holidays. We even opened the park just for our family to celebrate Christmas Day a few times. MANY MANY MANY fantastic memories of that place.